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    I am almost 18 and all my life I loved the arts. I drew, I sang, I played many instruments, I've created stories, and I crafted memory books and made beautiful bracelets to sell. <br />
    It was what made me me.<br />
    Through middle school I had this small appreciation for nature and what-not that I never payed attention to.<br />
    In high school would look at factories, litter, dry grass plains, even the little sections of grass on highways that look like there would be enough room to plant trees in. <br />
    All these things gave me an idea for a painting to make...<br />
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    It was when I created this piece of art in my head that caused my little spark of nature to grow into a fire. <br />
    The piece was of a beautiful woman slowly growing ugly and dying, with power lines stabbed into her flesh, factories draining the natural skin oils from her skin, and her hair, made <br />
    of forest fires and waterfalls leading into polluted lakes. <br />
    There were little construction workers trying to paint over the cracks of her skin as a lady would try to conceal her wounds with foundation after she'd been abused. <br />
    This woman, our mother earth, was being abused by her children. She had a pained expression and I wanted nothing more than to put a smile upon her face.<br />
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    Arts to me now are nothing but entertainment, things I do to kill time. All of that was me then; this is me now.<br />
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    I want to be able to work with a group and plant things in places, wherever plants can be planted,<br />
    like, for example, a long road that can have rows of trees on each side so that it will look like a hall or a tunnel. Maybe bushes, perhaps! <br />
    Or doing all kinds of other stuff, like cleaning the environment..<br />
    Not enough people are taking action to what's happening right now; climate change, and many places are left dry and empty instead of flourished with nature.<br />
    Sorry if I sound like a green freak but I care deeply of the planet we all share and seeing all the potential things I could work with have went so far as to bring tears to my eyes.<br />
    I want this to be my future.
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